Negotiation

Career Planning

“Find the right fit (strengths, passions, people). Extraordinarily successful executives lead careers that fully leverage both their strengths and their passions more than six times as often as the average employee.” James Citrin and Richard Smith in The 5 Patterns of Extraordinary Careers.

Tony Robbins

“The strongest force in the human personality is the need to remain consistent with how we define ourselves.” Tony Robbins.

Relationships

“Alone we can do so little – together we can do so much.” Helen Keller.

“The people you spend the most time with will change you in ways you cannot anticipate or ever fully understand after the fact. The most important choice of all is who you choose to surround yourself with.” Ben Casnocha.

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Jim Rohn.

Courage and Overcoming Fear

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop and look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I loved through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” Eleanor Roosevelt.

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill.

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” Anais Nin.

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.” Plato.

“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up for our friends.” J.K. Rowling.

“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Martin Luther King Jr.

Body Language

According to Harvard Researcher Amy Cuddy, practicing power poses before walking into an interview can decrease stress-related hormones in your body and increase your confidence.I highly recommend watching this Amy Cuddy TED talk “Body language shapes who you are”

Personal Power

“You lose your power not by giving it away, but by not giving it away.” Debasish Mridha.

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” Margaret Thatcher.

“He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.” Lao-Tzu.

“I’m finally ready to own my own power, to say, “This is who I am.” If you like it, you like it. And if you don’t like it, you don’t. So watch out; I’m gonna fly.” Oprah Winfrey.

“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” Abraham Lincoln.

Confidence

“We convince by our presence.” Walt Whitman.

“Presence manifests as confidence without arrogance.” Amy Cuddy.

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” Norman Vincent Peale.

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” Marilyn Monroe.

More Quotes I Love

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter.

“The higher your perceived value, the further you’ll advance in your career, and the harder it will be to get rid of you in an economic downturn.” Stuart Diamond in Getting More.

“Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.” Mitzi Chandler.

“If you aren’t embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.” Reid Hoffman.

“But ‘elite’ is a tricky word, so let’s be careful to define our terms. In this case, the elite are not the rich or the one percent or the stars of stage and screen. In the historical context, it was those with the interest in and capacity to use the scientific and mechanical ideas in the Encyclopedie. It was they who set the groundwork for growth in the coming industrial era. While they may also have been rich, that wasn’t the point.” Entrepreneurs, Economic Growth, and the Enlightenment. Written by Tim Sullivan, Harvard Business Review

“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” Red Adair.

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” Viktor Frankl.

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Confucius.

“When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.” John Ruskin.

“Try not to become a person of success, but rather a person of value.” Albert Einstein.

“And the only way to do great work is to love what you do…Don’t settle.” Steve Jobs.

“Who dares wins.” Motto of elite military special forces units.

“Was I aware of the revolution I was creating? Not at all. One world was ending, another was being born. I was there, chance offered itself, and I took it.” Coco Chanel.

“Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.” Deepak Chopra.

If you want to be happy, be.” Leo Tolstoy.

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past as better than it was, the present worse than it is and the future less resolved than it will be.” Marcel Pagnol.

“There is no duty we so underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy, we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.” Robert Louis Stevenson.

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell.

“As you meet your friends and new people, shift from asking yourself the very natural question of “What’s in it for me?” and ask instead, “What’s in it for us?” All follows from that.” Reid Hoffman.

“The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.

“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Jim Rohn.